Vostè dóna suport l'energia nuclear? Per què o per què no?

Jo personalment el seu suport.
A causa que:
Aquí a Austràlia, tenim una gran quantitat d'urani de manera que també pot guanyar diners exportant a altres països.
No genera diòxid de carboni tant com, per exemple, el carbó que és també una font no renovable.
Vostè pot produir una gran quantitat d'electricitat en una sola planta.

Però no estic ignorant el fet que l'energia nuclear és, com tota la resta, no són perfectes.
L'emmagatzematge dels residus és un problema, i també ho és el fet que és una operació arriscada.

Però si ens fixem el problema de les escombraries a un costat per un moment, la cosa arriscada operació no és realment d'una gran quantitat.
Vull dir que si ens fixem en la vida quotidiana, hi ha una major possibilitat de persones que moren en accidents automobilístics (alguna cosa que es fa gairebé cada dia és el passeig en un cotxe) que de ser matat per la crisi / accidents d'una central nuclear.

Tot i que l'urani no és renovable i que només estarà disponible per a un màxim de 100 anys, segueixo pensant que és una millor opció en comparació amb el carbó, etc, perquè el que realment fa una diferència a l'emissió de diòxid de carboni.

Comparteixi les seves opinions per favor i donar les raons.
@ Poc
Entenc que vostè està venint, però en comparació amb el carbó, quin triaria?
Jo mateix preferiria si fem servir l'energia eòlica o la solar, ja que són lliures de risc, les fonts renovables, però en aquests moments estem confiant en el carbó en la seva majoria.

S'està produint una gran quantitat de diòxid de carboni que contribueix a l'escalfament global.

Són les cèl · lules de combustible d'una economia falsa?

Tothom sembla estar molt estimulada per la revolució de l'hidrogen se suposa que està a la volta de la cantonada. Cotxes de piles de combustible alimentades, se'ns promet, serà del 100% amb aigua només com un producte de rebuig. Se'ns diu que les piles de combustible es podrà tot, des automòbils fins ordinadors portàtils.

Algú més veu problemes amb aquesta proposta? En primer lloc, l'hidrogen és un gas molt volàtil, de manera que omplir els cotxes, etc amb ell serà molt més perillós que omplir amb gasolina. A més, si un cotxe ple d'accidents de gas d'hidrogen i es va trencar el tanc d'emmagatzematge, tot això va a explotar al primer senyal d'una espurna.

En segon lloc d'hidrogen, no es produeix en grans quanities natural, de manera que hem de produir. Això requereix d'energia i, segurament, aquesta energia és només va a provenir de la crema de més combustibles fòssils en centrals elèctriques. I si no ho fa, si hem creat una infraestructura d'energia renovable, per què tan sols necessita d'hidrogen? tot (incloent vehicles, etc) només pot ser connectat a una presa de corrent ...

Deu punts!?

Dissenyat per Peter Poulet i Michael Harvey, la Casa de formigó celebra el formigó com un material fort. Per
usant components fàcilment disponibles i transportable aquesta casa és assequible, ràpida de construir, i no es basa en
treballadors molt especialitzats. El formigó és un material durable que requereix molt poc manteniment.
Viure en aquesta casa seria un compromís de viure de manera sostenible, ús d'energies renovables, la recol · lecció d'aigua de pluja
i minimitzar els residus. Emmagatzematge d'aigua de pluja està integrat en el disseny usant les columnes de formigó prefabricat
- Gairebé qualsevol volum d'aigua que poden ser emmagatzemats usant aquest senzill mètode. Un sistema solar d'aigua calenta es pot instal · lar
al sostre. Natural de la massa tèrmica del formigó s'utilitza per mantenir la casa fresca a l'estiu i càlida a l'hivern.

Cercar en el text.
a) El front de fred:
b) Un sinònim per a la construcció de:
c) Un modal verb:
d) Un verb auxiliar (negatiu):

Què ens passa als centenars de milers de milions de dòlars abans de la guerra.?

D'alguna manera l'assumida per moltes persones que la fi de la guerra milloraran les nostres vides d'alguna manera.
Sabia que gastem 20 mil milions de dòlars per a la cura del càncer o invertir en la producció d'energia renovable, o fins i tot donar una bona cura de criança dels nens per assegurar que cap d'ells s'abusa.

No ho crec.

Què és el que gastem els diners.

Ponts enlloc, les oficines de correus, canvi de nom dels aeroports privats, cases rodants de FEMA que se sentin buits podrint i lloguer d'espai d'emmagatzematge per emmagatzemar els béns donats per als esforços d'ajuda que haurien d'haver estat dispersades a les víctimes de l'huracà.

Hem gastat milions en estudis per determinar la millor manera de reconstruir la devastada costa del Golf i, no obstant això fins ara només uns pocs milers d'habitatges han estat reconstruïdes.

Perquè la gent pensa que el govern hagués gastat aquests diners en alguna cosa que no sigui ell mateix i les necessitats dels rics és una tonteria.

Crec que la guerra dóna treball a molts dels que no tenen cap.

La vida és perillosa i més persones moren en accidents de trànsit a continuació, en la guerra.

Seleccioneu els dos punts que segueixen que no són certes sobre l'energia nuclear i les centrals elèctriques?

A) les plantes d'energia nuclear es va desenvolupar per primera vegada comercialment que en els anys 1950
B) és subsidiada pel govern, perquè és molt car en comparació amb els combustibles fòssils
C) es considera una font d'energia renovable
D) els resultats d'energia nuclear d'una divisió de la reacció en cadena controlada per nuclis separats diu fissió atòmica
E) 20% de l'electricitat dels EUA és de l'energia nuclear
F) allibera menys emissions de gasos d'efecte hivernacle que els combustibles fòssils
G) en general té menys riscos de salut i seguretat per als treballadors de la planta que a les plantes de carbó
H) Pennsylvania no té cap alt nivell llocs d'emmagatzematge de residus radioactius de generació d'energia nuclear

que sigui senzill per a mi?

L'energia hidroelèctrica es produeix en centrals hidroelèctriques. Energia Hidroelèctrica d'energia hidràulica significa també conegut com la força o l'energia de l'aigua en moviment. Es tracta d'una font d'energia renovable no produeix residus i diòxid de carboni que ajuda a gasos d'efecte hivernacle (gasos presents en l'atmosfera que redueixen la pèrdua de calor). L'energia hidroelèctrica prové de l'energia potencial de l'aigua embassada de conduir una turbina d'aigua (motor que pren l'energia de l'aigua en moviment) i el generador (un dispositiu que converteix l'energia mecànica en energia elèctrica). L'energia extreta de l'aigua depèn del volum i la diferència d'altura entre la font i la sortida de l'aigua. Aquesta diferència d'altura es diu el cap. Energia hidroelèctrica per bombament produeix electricitat per proveir la demanda pic d'alta pel moviment de l'aigua entre els dipòsits (un lloc o recipient buit on es guarda alguna cosa (generalment líquid) en la reserva, per al seu ús posterior) a diferents alçades. En els moments de demanda elèctrica baixa, l'excés de capacitat de generació s'utilitza per bombar aigua al dipòsit superior. Quan hi ha una major demanda, l'aigua es retorna al dipòsit inferior a través d'una turbina.

escriure un comentari sobre FETS DE RECICLATGE I BENEFICIS?

Avui tothom ha sentit parlar de la importància de reciclar i la majoria de les ciutats ofereixen un programa de reciclatge, però què és el reciclatge i el beneficiós que és realment per a nosaltres i el medi ambient?

Quins són els fets de reciclatge i els beneficis?
El reciclatge és el procés de convertir un producte peces útils en un nou producte, això es fa per estalviar en el consum de recursos, l'energia i l'espai utilitzat en els abocadors.
Al reciclar 1 ampolla de plàstic no només estalvia entre 100 i 1000 anys a l'abocador sinó que també estalvia el medi ambient de les emissions en la producció de noves ampolles, així com l'oli usat per produir l'ampolla.
Per cada tona un de plàstic que es recicla s'estalvia l'equivalent del consum d'energia de 2 persones per 1 any, la quantitat d'aigua utilitzada per una persona en temps de 2 mesos i gairebé 2000 lliures d'oli.
Aproximadament el 60% de les nostres escombraries tirat avui podrien ser reciclats. Es va realitzar una enquesta i 9 de cada 10 persones enquestades van dir que reciclar més, si era més fàcil.

Per estrany que sembla que hi ha molta gent que no s'adonen que les ampolles de plàstic l'aigua entra en està fet de petroli. Aquest és el mateix oli que s'utilitza per produir gasolina. És el mateix oli que es troba en gran demanda i no és un recurs il · limitat.
Avui dia els productes més comuns a les ciutats dels programes de reciclatge són els productes de paper, cartró, plàstic, vidre i alumini.

Prenent només un moment per posar en el seu diari, una llauna de soda i pot de vidre espaguetis a la paperera de reciclatge s'estalvia tot el món l'any el dany ambiental de la producció de nous materials, sobre els abocadors plens de gent i l'esgotament dels nostres recursos naturals.
4000 anys

Quan no reciclar almenys el nostre vidre o alumini que costa la terra en l'ús d'energia d'ús, l'aigua i l'oli i la utilització de farcits sanitaris, vidre triga fins a 4000 anys en descompondre en un abocador però, es pot reciclar indefinidament.

Guanyar Diners
El reciclatge pot ser fet a casa, així com en relació amb els programes de la ciutat. Moltes iardes de la ferralla pagar per ferralla incloent les llaunes de refresc i llaunes de sopa que usem cada dia.

Sigui creatiu
Molts articles útils es poden fer de les escombraries cada dia, els tubs de cartró sobrants de paper tovallola i paper higiènic pot fer que els recipients d'emmagatzematge d'estris per als nostres cables d'extensió addicionals i impedeix que un embull dels llums de Nadal. Si tu vas a llançar aquests cap a fora no només llençar-la, ja que la paperera de reciclatge.

Flascons per a nadons poden arribar a ser globus de neu dels nens poden fer i donar com a regals, targetes de nadal pot arribar a ser les noves targetes fetes a mà i un got o una ampolla de plàstic juntament amb una mica d'oli clara i colorant d'aliments i alguns altres elements comuns de la casa pot esdevenir una renta meravellós llum!
Les possibilitats són infinites i les instruccions es poden trobar en llibres ia Internet.

Comenceu avui
El reciclatge és una activitat molt verd el medi ambient, però, hi ha maneres que vostè pot fer que sigui més verd, així com la construcció d'un sòlid començament si no es reciclen actualment.
Moltes persones que comencen un programa de reciclatge de mirar al voltant i es pregunten què poden posar en el recipient de reciclatge, no hi ha tanta informació disponible en aquest lloc, així que no s'estengui el pànic.
Mitjançant la reutilització dels envasos d'emmagatzematge reciclats a estalviar en l'impacte ambiental també. Les bosses de paper i plàstic són bons per al reciclatge d'emmagatzematge, però, una safata de plàstic reutilitzable és encara millor.

Corre la veu!
Comparteix el que saps. Si s'observa les escombraries abunda al barri comença a escampar la paraula i la seva experiència amb el reciclatge i si no és ja un en el seu lloc s'esforcen per aconseguir un reciclatge de la ciutat recull el programa va començar.

El fet és que molts dels nostres recursos, així com la nostra Terra no és renovable i hem de començar a prendre el control de nosaltres mateixos a partir del món en què vivim

L'escalfament global ja no es considera com una teoria dels científics i s'ha convertit tristament en un fet. El canvi necessari ha d'estar en les seves accions d'avui amb la finalitat d'assegurar un brillant (no gaire calenta) de matí.

OFERTA de la careers@hewlettpackard-uk.co.cc i hp.recruitmentlondon @ live.com?

Tinc el correu folowing és estafa o FROD o és veritat que no puc understnad que m'estan enviant ofereixen més endavant com puc saber això és HP veritables formulari o no?

Atenció: el Sr Udaysinh C. Vaghela,

Salutacions des de Hewlett Packard (HP)

Aquesta és una afirmació que ha emergit amb èxit i de ser nomenat per al càrrec indicat en el seu document de nomenament.

La manera de selecció es va basar en els següents;

1. CV i la qualificació
2. Mode en què els seus dades es presenta en el full de dades d'ocupació.
3. Experiències de treball.

Comptem amb personal basat en quatre valors fonamentals a saber;
La productivitat, talent, l'ambició i el caràcter i esperem que tot el nostre personal de nova contractació per exhibir aquests valors fonamentals.
També ens assegurem que tot el nostre personal, especialment als nostres empleats internacionals se senten còmodes.

S'adjunta a la present, que conté el document corresponent còpia electrònica del seu paquet de contracte per al seu examen i aprovació.

La seva Resum d'oferta d'ocupació és el següent;

Durada del contracte: TERMINI DE 5 ANYS DE CONTRACTE (renovable)
DESIGNACIÓ DE TREBALL: Desenvolupador de Programari

INICI DATA: 26 D'AGOST, 2010

Període de llicència: dues vegades cada 12 MESOS

REF TREBALL: RADUK/COL/543AB

CODI DE TREBALL AP/S2653

Lloc del Treball: LONDRES, REGNE UNIT

NOTA: Vostè ha de reportar el seu deure de Gerent de Recursos Humans.

Còpia electrònica del teu contracte de treball,

Aquesta declaració se celebra avui entre Hewlett Packard (HP) de la part primera i segona, com una de les parts.
Per ser considerat bo, Hewlett Packard (HP) compta amb l'empleat en els següents termes i condicions.

ARTICLE 1: TERMINI DEL CONTRACTE
La durada del contracte serà de durada del contracte: El contracte tindrà una durada de durada de 60 mesos consecutius; 5 anys i podrà ser renovat basat en serveis satisfactoris dels empleats a l'empresa.

ARTICLE 2: SOU
Hewlett Packard (HP) pagarà els empleats en l'exercici satisfactori dels serveis de la suma de (£ 7.200) set mil dos cents lliures de Gran Bretanya. Bàsic (Impost inclòs) al mes. és a dir, després d'impostos mensuals, equivalent segons el país d'origen de l'empleat.
L'empleat serà reemborsat per l'ocupador per les despeses raonables incorregudes en moviment només com a resultat de la reubicació o acabament anticipat de contractes d'arrendament, despeses d'emmagatzematge, adquisició de documents de viatge. Els reemborsaments es faran abans d'embarcar en el viatge dels empleats, com a molt tard cinc (5) dies hàbils després de la presentació de l'informe de despeses de l'empleat i els ingressos, aquest .. després de l'adquisició dels corresponents documents de viatge a través de l'assistència de l'assessor legal de l'empresa en matèria d'immigració
Ocupador també s'haurà de fer càrrec dels empleats bitllet d'avió inclòs el dels empleats de la família només en la notificació dels empleats d'hora per l'ocupador i que haurà de ser sol · licitada pels empleats (NOMÉS DOS MEMBRES DE LA FAMÍLIA ES PERMET)

ARTICLE 3: Deures i de posició.
Hewlett Packard (HP) contracta l'empleat en la capacitat dels deures de l'empleat pot ser raonablement modificada a Hewlett Packard (HP), la discreció de tant en tant.

ARTICLE 4: Empleat per dedicar temps complet a Hewlett Packard (HP).
L'empleat dedicarà a temps complet, l'atenció i energies a la producció de les computadores, i, en aquest treball, no s'involucrarà en cap altra activitat econòmica, independentment de si aquesta activitat es persegueix fins de lucre, guany o avantatge pecuniària. L'empleat no està prohibit de fer inversions personals en qualsevol altre negoci sempre que aquestes inversions no requereixen la participació activa en el funcionament d'aquestes empreses.

ARTICLE 5: Confidencialitat de la Informació Confidencial.
Empleat es compromet, durant o després de la vigència d'aquesta ocupació, a no revelar informació confidencial de la prestació de qualsevol servei a qualsevol entitat a la qual aquesta informació ha estat o està amenaçat amb ser divulgada, el dret a obtenir una ordre judicial no és exclusiu, i l'EMPRESA pot exercir qualsevol altre recurs que té contra l'empleat d'una violació o amenaça de violació d'aquesta condició, incloent la recuperació dels danys causats per l'empleat.

ARTICLE 6: Discapacitat.
En el cas que l'empleat no pot exercir les funcions com a conseqüència de malaltia o incapacitat per un període de més d'1 mes, la compensació en un altre cas es va dir durant la malaltia. Compensació total de l'empleat serà reintegrat al seu retorn a la feina. No obstant això, si l'empleat es absent del treball per qualsevol raó durant un període continuat de més de 2 mesos, la companyia podrà donar per acabat l'ocupació de l'empleat, així com les obligacions de Hewlett Packard a aquest acord deixarà en aquesta data.

ARTICLE 7: Terminació del Acord.
Sense causa Hewlett Packard pot acabar aquest acord en qualsevol moment mitjançant notificació per escrit de 6 dies per a l'empleat, l'empleat seguirà exercint les seves funcions i poden ser pagats al seu / seu salari amb regularitat fins a la data de terminació. En addi

L'energia renovable ideal - turbina de vent a les rodes per obtenir el poder de l'huracà?

És possible aconseguir una turbina eòlica gegant amb rodes que es poden col · locar en els huracans per tal de recollir grans quantitats d'energia?

Per exemple, què tal una turbina molt resistent (com la hèlix que es faria servir per als avions que van 500 MPH) i un dispositiu d'emmagatzematge d'energia que converteix l'òxid d'alumini d'alumini (material d'alt potencial d'energia / energia alliberada = reacció de tèrmit), per exemple. Amb l'hidrogen, que malgasten energia comprimint ... així que preferiblement un sistema de conversió d'energia que dóna sòlids o líquids. A continuació, només bombar el combustible a qualsevol lloc i convertir-lo en electricitat.

SI??
Per descomptat, vostè tregui les llantes i tancament d'una vegada el lloc ... materials per a la construcció pot ser molt barat crec que si REALMENT tractat de construir amb peces ja fetes.

quin tipus de planta és la planta d'energia nuclear Turkey Point a Homestead Florida?

és o bé BWR o PWR?

Anem a veure les noves centrals nuclears construïdes en el futur proper?

En l'exemple més recent dels sorprenentment cars noves centrals nuclears,

"El govern d'Ontario va posar els seus plans d'energia nuclear en espera el mes passat pel fet que l'oferta d'Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, l'únic" conforme "un d'ells va rebre, va ser més de tres vegades superior al que la província ha de pagar [en $ 13 mil milions de dòlars reactor].

Això significa que un sol projecte hauria acabat amb la província nuclears -. Pressupost d'expansió de l'energia per als propers 20 anys, deixant sense diners almenys altres dos projectes de rehabilitació de milers de milions de dòlars "

"Gran part de l'augment de preus dramàtica es relaciona amb el cost de la mà d'obra i materials, que s'han disparat en els últims anys. De Subministradors Nuclears i els seus inversors també tenen menys tolerància al risc."

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/665644

Així mateix, Turquia no va poder obtenir cap oferta per sota de 21 centaus de dòlar per kWh per una arma nuclear nova (el cost de l'energia mitjana és actualment de menys de 8 centaus de dòlar per kWh).

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=164556&bolum=105

Una nova arma nuclear a Finlàndia va passar per sobre del pressupost en més de $ 2 mil milions (50% sobre l'estimació inicial) i 3 anys més del previst.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSLS56745220080828

En l'energia nuclear de nova EUA està en camí de costar 15 centaus a 20 centaus de dòlar per kilowatt-hora. I cap planta nuclear ha dut a terme dins del pressupost.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0, 8816,1869203,00. html

Florida Power and Light va arribar a la conclusió que dues noves unitats per un total de 2.200 megawatts costaria $ 12 mil milions a $ 18 bilions.

Reguladors de Progress Energy informar de l'estat que els bessons de 1.100 megawatts plantes que té intenció de construir a Florida costaria $ 14 mil milions, el que "triplica les estimacions de la utilitat que ofereix poc més que fa un any." I les seves estimacions de costos són "no vinculant" i "subjecte a canviar amb el temps. "

http://climateprogress.org/2008/06/13/ nuclear - el poder-part-2-el-preu-is-not-a la dreta /

Amb aquests costos molt alts per a les noves centrals nuclears a tot el món, creus que anem a veure les noves centrals nuclears construïdes en el futur proper?

Per què no els defensors de la potència global de suport escalfament nuclear?

Això sempre m'ha desconcertat, perquè la majoria dels defensors de l'escalfament global són escèptics perquè tenen por al seu baix cost i l'eficiència de l'energia nuclear.

Però es podria pensar, si aquest fos el cas, en la seva majoria estaria a favor del canvi per reduir el consum de combustibles fòssils barats com el carbó i el gas natural. No obstant això, la majoria dels autors semblen resistir-se a tot cor un major ús de l'energia nuclear.

Això sembla contradir les seves motivacions ecològiques, ja que l'energia nuclear nova és extremadament eficient i neta. Una de les poques noves plantes d'energia nuclear proposat per a ser construït en els EUA en els últims 30 anys - en Sant Antoni - es va estimar originalment a un cost de $ 13 mil milions per 2 reactors. El preu acaba de pujar altres $ 4000000000 causa dels sindicats i les regulacions de l'EPA sense fonament.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/ nuclear ...

La mateixa història es pot aplicar a les propostes de les centrals nuclears a Florida, Carolina del Nord, ia l'estranger al Canadà i Finlàndia. A causa principalment a l'EPA i els defensors de l'escalfament global, l'energia nuclear està molt reprimida alternativa viable.

No obstant això, sentim constantment a les preguntes dels defensors de l'escalfament global sobre per què els no creients no són compatibles amb algore i l'església de l'escalfament global amb més força.

Quin és el problema? No entenen la realitat del poder nuclear neta i eficient? No ho resisteixen perquè els no creients saben l'energia nuclear és millor que el carbó i el gas natural? ¿S'acaba de repetir com a lloros el que escolten dels mitjans de comunicació liberals i els llocs web polítics?

Why do global warming 'skeptics' support nuclear power so strongly?

This has always puzzled me, because most AGW deniers are 'skeptics' because they're afraid of the economic costs of carbon regulation.

But you would think if that were the case, they would mostly favor the status quo of relying on cheap fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas. Yet most 'skeptics' seem to wholeheartedly support an increased use of nuclear power .

This seems to contradict their economic motivations, because new nuclear power is extremely expensive. One of the few new nuclear power plants proposed to be built in the US in the last 30 years – in San Antonio – was originally estimated to cost $13 billion for 2 reactors. The price tag just went up another $4 billion.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/Nuclear_cost_estimate_rises.html

The same story can be applied to proposed nuclear plants in Florida , North Carolina, and abroad in Canada and Finland. Due mainly to increased construction costs, nuclear power is an expensive alternative.

Yet we constantly hear questions from deniers about why “alarmists” don't support nuclear power more strongly.

What's the deal? Do they not understand the reality of nuclear costs? Do they support it just because environmentalists used to object to nuclear power ? Are they just parrotting what they hear from the right-wing media?
Looks like it's indeed a combination of my suspicions.

1) They're purely anti-environmentalists.
2) They're purely anti-liberal, and view renewable energy as “liberal” and nuclear as “conservative”.
3) They're stuck in the 1970s and think nuclear power is still cheap.

Or some combination of the three.

How can we rely on increased nuclear power production given its cost?

Florida Power & Light estimated that building a new nuclear plant in that state would cost $12-18 billion. A new study concluded that generation costs from a new nuclear power plant would cost 25-30 cents per kWh – three times the current average US electrical rates. A June 2008 report by Moody's Investor Services Global Credit Research concluded that any utility engaging in the risky venture of building a new nuclear power plant would experience a severe decline in its credit rating.

http://climateprogress.org/2009/01/07/ nuclear - power - plants -troubled-assests-credit-risk/#more-4585

Now I want to point out that I'm not suggesting we shut down all nuclear plants and never use nuclear power again. However, many people seem to feel that nuclear power is a silver bullet which will solve all our energy problems. Given the costs and risks of new nuclear plants , it seems more like a diamond-encrusted platinum bullet to me.

So how can we rely on increased nuclear power production to solve our energy problems given its cost and risks?
Ben – solar and wind (and geothermal) are cheaper, as discussed here:
http://greenhome.huddler.com/forum/thread/975/new- nuclear - power -plant-costs-appear-staggering

How does Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant dispose of it's nuclear waste?

Located in Florida ?

Why is the GOP pushing for new nuclear power?

“Republicans say, build 100 new nuclear power plants during the next twenty years”

http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=92504368-37ec-4d4e-94bb-9edc4fc33250

But as they push for a massive number of new nuclear plants , this is what's happening around the world.

Finland: “After four years of construction and thousands of defects and deficiencies, the reactor's 3 billion euro price tag, about $4.2 billion, has climbed at least 50 percent. And while the reactor was originally meant to be completed this summer, Areva, the French company building it, and the utility that ordered it, are no longer willing to make certain predictions on when it will go online.”

Turkey: “The only company bidding…offered a price of 21.16 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). Current electricity prices in the country vary between 4 cents and 14 cents per kWh.”

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=164556&bolum=105

Even here in the USA, in Florida : “Progress Energy offered its revised estimate Tuesday: $14-billion for two new nuclear reactors…The utility said its 200-mile, 10-county transmission project will cost $3-billion more. The total cost triples estimates the utility offered little more than a year ago.”

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/energy/article414653.ece

Idaho: “Consumers expect reasonably priced energy, and the company's due diligence process has led to the conclusion that it does not make economic sense to pursue the project at this time,” Bill Fehrman, President of MidAmerican Nuclear Energy Co, said in the letter to Payette County residents.

http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN2957446620080129

The list goes on. Why does the GOP want 100 new nuclear power plants when currently they're so expensive and having so little success in the USA and around the world?

Why Not Nuclear Reactors if So Much Concern about Environment?

In California, we have one nuclear reactor, on half the time. We still have coal burning power plants . How many tens of thousands of kids and adults have to get asthma before CLEAN nuclear power is established? Florida has 5, their rates are 1/4 of California. Even tiny Switzerland has 5.
There have never been any nuclear 'accident's in the United States. No one was ever injured, no plant or animal of any kind was injured. We had a scare only with Three Mile Island. Russia had catastrophes with poorly designed reactors.
Nuclear reactors have zero emissions unlike even 'clean' natural gas or so called 'clean' coal plants .

What is that power plant near Orlando, right off the Beach Line (528) Highway?

I was just visiting family in Florida , and I was driving back to the Orlando International Airport on 528-W, and I saw a big power plant with two big cooling towers from the highway. I also flew right over the power station and could see it all from the window of my plane. I'm pretty sure it's not a nuclear plant, but I was just wondering what the name of it is. Can anyone give me any information/websites/etc? Gràcies.

How does energy storage affect the future of renewable energy?

Could gravel batteries make renewable energy more realistic?

A company claims to have solved the problem of storing energy from renewable sources using giant gravel batteries:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/26/gravel-batteries- renewable - energy - storage

Què pensa vostè?

what do you think about new wind energy maps?

New energy storage systems are able to store so much renewable energy ….so….

HURRICANE ENERGY CAN BE STORED!! So…1 day hurricane would give much more
usable…. energy than a good constant 1 year 6 m/s wind….

Results are evident!

What is the energy output when obtaining hydrogen from water using electrolysis?

Let's say one uses 100 kilowatt generating capacity to produce hydrogen from water using electrolysis, and runs the process for one hour. If he then turns around and uses the hydrogen to generate electricity, how much can he generate? Can he then produce 25 kilowatts for one hour? 50 kw? In other words, is the return from electrolysis 25%? Is it 50%? I am interested in the storage capacity from hydrogen produced with renewable energy . Gràcies.

What do you think about Tomorrowshorizon.org?

Tomorrows Horizon Inc is a start up nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of knowledge regarding the problems our world faces, developments in renewable energy production and storage , and breakthroughs in sustainable living systems.
Our website is still under construction but please take a few minutes to check out our homepage and if you would like updates please join our mailing list.

lightning arresters and storage devices?

is there a way we could use lightning arresters and storage devices to store energy from lightning and use it as a renewable source of electricity?

Why not nuclear the same as France?

He llegit moltes preguntes i respostes sobre la generació d'energia i com la crisi d'energia dels EUA podria ser resolt pels recursos renovables com el vent o cel · les solars. Si bé el vent, les cèl · lules solars, hidroelèctriques, gas d'abocador i altres tipus de generació d'energia renovable, tots tenen el seu lloc en una barreja general, per la seva variabilitat i el seu caràcter difús, no són una font viable d'energia fiable de càrrega base. Faig èmfasi en la importància de la fiabilitat, ja que no existeixen mètodes pràctics d'emmagatzematge d'energia que no tenen un preu molt alt en l'eficiència.

El primer mètode de manera eficaç l'augment de l'oferta d'energia renovable és l'ús de menys. A continuació, si l'energia de fusió i fins que es converteix en una realitat, l'única resposta que altres, i sé que hi haurà els plors, els braços agitant i parlar de la fi del món, és l'ús de reactors nuclears a prova d'errors (que es tancarà abans de la fosa), amb el reprocessament de combustible per alleujar el problema d'emmagatzematge de residus va passar. 80% de la potència de França és nuclear. ¿Què saben ells que no ho fem?

The alternatives are horrifying?

When it comes to discussing what is going to happen
when oil runs out, the loudest argue adopting renewable energy
is a horrifying prospect – it's inadequate etc.

But if we turn our attention to:
What will solar energy / collectors and storage devices
be like in the year 3000…
maybe we'd move the debate,
and our reality, on
cos, once identified ~
we could produce now…

Què pensa vostè?

I've made a start, putting down my design ideas.
Please take a look:

http://www.the-alternative.org.uk

See: Chapter 6: Energy / Solar

Need information on energy?

I am doing a project on energy . It consists of 12 different types of energies. I just need information on some of them because they are hard to find. They are:

1) Ethanol/Methanol
2) Bio-mass
3)Lithium Ion Battery
4) Pumped storage reservoirs
5) Geothermal

The information I need on them are:

A) Is it efficient?
B) Is it renewable , why or why not?
c) Is it reusable
d) can it be used anywhere?
e) where is it best used?

*Thanks for your help!!

Are McCain/Palin supporters Naive or Oblivious?

I just don't understand?, republicans whine and complain when things go wrong; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approval_rating

Then all of a sudden their republican presidential nominee chooses a female as his running mate for vice presidency. They forget all about the major issues they so annoyingly complained about over the past few years. Health Care, Education, National Security, Immigration, Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage, Social Security, and the Economy.

Which of these do John McCain and George W Bush disagree about OH YEAH!, none:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/17/us/politics/20080617_POLICY_GRAPHIC.html

Sure they do disagree on a few issues but just answer me this in the past 100 years(and not in the last 20 to 30 or so years) which of these: Climate Change, Energy and Oil, Renewable Energy , Interrogation Tactics, and Arms Control. Can you say was brought up as an important issue related to the american people?. I would have to say NONE!.

Is Obama the answer I don't know and i don't really care. Is McCain the solution to our problems sure, if hell freezes over.
Jeez, are you serious when you don't see proof you complain. “where are you facts blah blah blah”. I give you actual facts from reliable sources and it's not enough that's amazing how insanely stuborn you people can be.
I don't follow politics but it's laughable how easy it is to correct some of you like ricky there,

McCain/Palin supporters are those that believe in the American dream…

Do you honestly think republicans are the only one's who dream of that, what person in the world doesn't believe in the american dream; it's what most of us dream of it's what we strive for. Do

Those supporteres haven't forgotten about health care and education…

How are thes not your opinions?, it's completely contradictory bush and McCain agree on the same policy. FOR CHRIST SAKE AHHH!!!.

They haven't forgotten about National Security….

The last attack on American soil before 9/11 occurred 60 years prior, how is that any different than the past 7 years?.

They haven't forgotten about immigration, because they want the illegals to stay out and welcome the documented….
This is why republicans disgust me this wonderful country you love so much was founded on a single basis, Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. We are a nation of immigrants how we've deluded ourselves into believing that were not natives of this country is beyond any kind of normal comprehension.

They haven't forgotten about abortion. They remember that, “Thou shalt not kill.” They haven't forgotten about same-sex marriage, they ignore it because it's not a natural union.

Once again how does this not differ from what I said about health and education

They haven't forgotten about Social Security. They believe that putting money into the people's pockets and letting them invest it in private funds is better than having government do it for them. Finally, the economy is in better shape than it was in the Clinton years, but a Democratic Congress has made it difficult for the President these past two years.
Why would anyone in the past 100 years bring up climate change, energy and oil, renewable energy , interrogation tactics, or arms control? Global warming wasn'ta concern. Energy and oil were what made the Rockefellers rich. Renewable energy didn't exist. Interrogation tactics included beating the bejesus out of someone until the talked. And arms control was I dare you to pry this gun from my cold dead fingers.
EXACTLY!, does this person have a brain? I clearly stated that.

Is Obama the answer? No. Is McCain? That's the way I'm voting.

How does this final statement even make sense?.

Is The government handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants to create jobs Bad?

Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs

Obama hands out $2 billion for new solar plants, says money will help create thousands of jobs

The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.

Obama announced the initiative in his weekly radio and online address Saturday, saying the money is part of his plan to bring new industries to the US

“We're going to keep competing aggressively to make sure the jobs and industries of the future are taking root right here in America,” Obama said.

The Obama administration says those projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.

Obama said that while it may take years to bring back all the jobs lost during the recession, the economy is moving in a positive direction.

The unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent.

Obama has said that to bring the nation's economy back from the brink of a depression, it was necessary to add to the country's debt in the short term.

Everyone is talking about CUT SPENDING. But Is this SPENDING bad?

Entries for Issuing and Calling Bonds; Gain?

Entries for Issuing and Calling Bonds; Gain

Vidovich Corp. produces and sells renewable energy equipment. To finance its operations, Vidovich Corp. issued $1,334,000 of 10-year, 13% callable bonds on January 1, 2012, with interest payable on January 1 and July 1. The fiscal year of the company is the calendar year.

Journalize the entries to record the following selected transactions:

2012
Jan. 1 Issued the bonds for cash at their face amount.
July. 1 Paid the interest on the bonds.
2018
July. 1 Called the bond issue at 96, the rate provided in the bond indenture. (Omit entry for payment of interest.)

Why are there so many social problems in the richest country in the world?

To name but a few, the USA scores lowly in all of the following compared to countries like Japan or Scandinavia (and most of western Europe to a lesser extent):

1) Crime
2) Teenage pregnancy
3) Health/life expectancy
4) Poverty and low income
5) Long working hours culture / less paid hoilday
6) Educational achievement/literacy rates
7) Obesity Environmental pollution eg CO2 per capita, recycling
9) Public transport and renewable energy
by richest country i just meant total not per capita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

I don' think you can argue over population is the cause of these problems when the countries that perform best are generally more densely populated (japan and western europe) than the usa.

I would suggest government has a big role to play in most of these as many of them are linked – particularly to inequality, education, healthcare and environmental regulation. With the exception of japan, most of western europe has a bigger public sector than the usa.
Personally I would suggest higher taxes on fuel, higher taxes for the rich, less defence spending, and more education, healthcare and public transport spending.

Can someone help me with my DIY residential solar project?

I'm new to the topic of renewable energy with solar panels. I've been doing some research and I think I have a general idea of what is required in a DIY scenario. However, most of the guides have very limited information regarding the use of an enclosure, box, etc. The information that I have found usually points to some home-made enclosure or leaving the batteries exposed. I'd rather not do that if possible.

The closest I have gotten is the Xantrex PH-1800, but it is not officially offered to the general public, so their website does not have any documentation posted on this. Here is some info on my scenario and the type of system I'd like to set up:

Portable:
I live in a house with plenty of space in the yard, and a spare bedroom, however, I don't plan on living here for much longer, so I'd like a small enough system that can be moved to the next house (possibly apartment) I move to.
Here's a picture of one that I found, although again, this one is only sold in bulk:

http://image.made-in-china.com/6f3j00lCf…

I'd like the container to allow for battery replacement. If it's a small container/enclosure, I'd like for it to be scalable so that I can add more batteries down the line if need be. The xantrex enclosure seems to offer that feature, but I'm not sure if that might be too advanced for me. I have a strong tech background, but limited electrical.

Scalable:
To begin with, I would like to simply power just an AC for 4hrs that uses 600 watts. If I'm calculating this right, then I would need 6 deep marine cycle batteries so that I don't drain them past 50%. I would also need an inverter rated at 600watt minimum.

Going back to the enclosure, ideally, the enclosure would have hookups that allow for adding/removing batteries without changing the solar panels. If the charging speed slows down, that's not a big deal for my scenario. Is there a such thing out there?

These requirements are not set in stone, so if I missed anything, feel free to subsititute numbers where necessary. The most important feature I'm interested in is scalability so that I don't have to throw away components down the line. I'd rather buy a 1000watt inverter now even if I would only use 600watts, assuming this doesn't produce another inefficiency. If it does, please let me know.
Update:
Thanks for the feedback. However, does anyone have information regarding a container that does not involve some kind of DIY process?

Also, since this is more of a starter project for me, I wouldn't be planning on using the AC and charging the batteries at the same time. In fact, I generally get home late from work and might only use this during the weekend.

Also, does higher wattage from the solar panels mean faster charging? I was under the impression that the controller's job is to pretty much take whatever electricity is coming from the solar panel and then “standardize it” to whatever the battery can handle, kind of like a funnel so to speak.

One other related question, would this change if I were to connect say 6 batteries in parallel or woudl it still require the same amount of wattage for the charging process?

Am I a Democrat or Republican?

Ok. I'm 13, and basically am just trying to figure out the political party my views fit in with best. I think I'ma Democrat, and that's what most quizzes I've taken have said, but I want a larger amount of people to take a look at it. Without further ado, here are my views on certain subjects.

I generally think that abortion is wrong, but I would NEVER take away a woman's right to choose.
I believe that Obamacare is a good thing.
I believe in welfare programs.
Gay marriage should definitely be legalized.
Affirmative action should be perfected. I believe that someone more qualified should have the job, not the minority.
I believe in a progressive tax rate. The highest bracket should be at almost 50%, with the lowest near 0%.
As for prayer in schools, I think that a student should have the right to be excused from class if he/she wants to pray, but no school should ever mandate prayer.
I would like us to move towards more renewable energy and hybrid cars.
I believe in an absolute separation of church and state. I don't even like it when candidates say, “God bless this land,” at the end of a speech.
Thanks for all the answers. Oh, and to the person talking about socialism and evolution, I am not a socialist, and I believe in evolution. We are humans because of a series of mutations over millions of years, NOT because God created a bunch of different animals.

Is The government handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants to create jobs Bad?

Obama awards $2B for solar power, hails new jobs

Obama hands out $2 billion for new solar plants, says money will help create thousands of jobs

The government is handing out nearly $2 billion for new solar plants that President Barack Obama says will create thousands of jobs and increase the use of renewable energy sources.

Obama announced the initiative in his weekly radio and online address Saturday, saying the money is part of his plan to bring new industries to the US

“We're going to keep competing aggressively to make sure the jobs and industries of the future are taking root right here in America,” Obama said.

The Obama administration says those projects will create more than 2,000 construction jobs and 1,500 permanent jobs.

Obama said that while it may take years to bring back all the jobs lost during the recession, the economy is moving in a positive direction.

The unemployment rate dropped to 9.5 percent.

Obama has said that to bring the nation's economy back from the brink of a depression, it was necessary to add to the country's debt in the short term.

How are todays landfills for economical and efficient. What would happen if America didn't have landfills?

-what items can be recycled (as in when you take your recycling bins curbside) what goes to landfill? I know pizza boxes, hangers, paint cans, anything contaminated either with food or chemicals can't be… I don't think. Why is it better to put it in the landfill?

I've heard if you throw a plastic bottle in the land fill it can last a thousand years?! Is that true. I read there is a new thing called bio-reactor landfills. These types of landfills use moisture as a method to enhance the waste degradation process. Have you heard of a bio-reactor? How does it work?
Studies carried out by EPA have suggested that by operating a landfill as a bio-reactor there is an increase in settlement of the solid waste as well as an enhancement in the methane generation rate of approximately five times that of conventional landfills. Overall, technologies developed under this program can extend the utility of municipal solid waste landfill space and produce a viable source of renewable energy .

I'm looking for information of how landfills today are economical and efficient.

I keep finding a ton of info on recycle, and zero-waste. But everything can't be recycled can it? What happens to those materials/items? What would happen to America if we didn't have landfills.

What will America/the world be like when humanity runs out of carbon fuel?

By now, most scientists are beginning to realize large scale renewable energy (such as solar, wind, etc) isn't going to be possible (at least not before we run out of carbon based fuels). So, what the hell are we going to do? What will America be like when the people who live in the suburbs don't have the gas to make it to the city? What will New York City be like with sky high food prices and shortages? How will YOU survive the Apocalypse if it comes in your lifetime? We've already passed our peak for oil and natural gas, and with consumption at the rate it is, it is likely we will run out soon or begin to see amazingly high gas prices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubbert_peak_theory#Natural_gas

You all realize of course that ignoring the problem or saying it probably won't happen won't keep it from happening right?

Have you ever gotten 3 estimates to put solar PV on your house w/ power company rebates and a 30% tax credit?

In CA, you can lease a system, for only the cost of your electric bill at today's rates . That certainly affordable. You lock in the rate you pay today, no power rate increases. The system is warranted for 25 years, is connected to the crid and sized so the power company provides your power in bad weather and at night. Or you can buy the system, pay it off in 8-12 years and have free power from then on. Why do people say solar PV is not viable? Solar is more efficient in colder temperature. Voltage increases as temperature goes down. There are a lot of misunderstandings about solar. The federal tax refund, is like tax deductions for mortgage interest, allowable and your right to use. Renewable energy is not Partisan, it's sensible and saves you money. Why not get a few estimate and find out what it really costs, and how it really works?

earth sci help! please thanks!! best answer! =)?

8. Between 1930 and 2000, human population rose by _______.
A) 50%
B) 150%
C) 300%
D) 500%
9. At current production and use rates , it is estimated that all of the known oil in the world will be used up in approximately _____ years.
A) 15
B) 40
C) 85
D) 140
10. The United States consumes approximately ____ more energy per person than the global average.
A) 2 times
B) 4.5 times
C) 8 times
D) 9.5 times
11. Which of the following is NOT a renewable energy resource?
A) Solar
B) Wind
C) Clean Coal
D) Tidal
E) Hydrothermal
12. Which of the following is NOT a fossil fuel?
A) Coal
B) Nuclear
C) Gas
D) Oil

How to reduce the USA federal budget deficit? A spending freeze, is that really a serious approach?

A serious freeze on 17% of the budget while the big spending items like the military are not frozen? Is that a real serious approach to deficit reduction?

What about returning income tax rates to what they were about 30 years ago or so on the top 1%?

The other issue is …..how does stopping domestic spending help create jobs? I thought it was common knowledget that one way to stimulate spending and therefore the economy is to have public works projects..like road and highway building and repairs, and same for bridges, dams, and other infrastructure? what about the renewable energy type projects they talked so much about during the election campaign of 2008?

Anyone else like me think that the Obama administration seems to have not conviction…no real belief? certainly not belief in the reform rhetoric they were shouting out during last campaign season. Since when is a 59 to 41 majority in the senate a handicap? since when is a huge election victory last election a handicap? And why the heck is Joe Lieberman chairman of anything right now anyway?

I voted for Obama and Democrats last election…….and like many people who did am getting pretty pissed off. Before you Republicans get too excited, yes I am bashing Obama and Democrats, but it will be cold day in hades before a Republican gets my vote…cause they are even worse.

Would you rather live in a society with no money if it was possible?

this is a little hypothecitcal – would you rather live in a world without money? Imagine if we could harness technology to produce our food and housing and basic needs, used 100% renewable energy such as heat from the earths core. Having no money would also change the schooling system, instead of teaching children to pass exams, to earn passage to university, to earn more money, we could school children to be good human beings and inventors.

Do you think this would reduce crime and war in the world or do you think that humans would find something else to fight about?

Beart in mind that poorer areas of cities and towns ALWAYS have higher crime rates than richer areas, and that all wars are fundemently wars to get control of resources which equal, money.

Maybe a better question would be – does money cause the crime and suffering in the world

What measures have the UK government taken to reduce CO2 emissions in industrial/transport/retail sectors?

I genuinely do not know.

They have targeted the housing sector heavily; HIPS, Energy Asset Rating and the constant drives for us to have renewable forms of energy and energy efficient light bulbs.

The problem is, energy wastage in homes is absolutely dwarfed by the wastage in other sectors.

Does anyone have any idea at all how insignificant fitting energy efficient (compact fluorescent) lamps are, when the massive Debenhams in Bond Street has it's entire facade covered in what appears to be standard GU bulbs for Christmas? (one of thousands of such stores)

Heated stores always having their door open; Lights on 24 hours even when the stores are closed. And do not get me started on Transport and Industrial sectors.

Am I the only one who thinks the heavy targetting by the government of energy efficiency in homes is totally misdirected? Focus on the retail sector at least!!!!

Why aren't we harnessing our own energy?

Why are we not drilling our own non- renewable resources while developing new technologies that will enable energy independence in the future?

We have a vast supply of Natural gas.

http://www.naturalgas.org/overview/resources.asp

We have a vast amount of land we can use for wind energy .

http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_maps.asp

We have areas of the US mainland where drilling is prohibited. Why not use these? (with regulations, we can keep both tourism and the oil industry safe)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/758Syms2006OCSMapWithPlanni.png

Are we developing new weapons? At the rate China is developing, a nuclear warhead will be like TNT in the future.

We have a vast amount of deserts where no one lives, where the sun's energy could be harnessed for miles.

Compare the ISS with China's new space station to be completed in 2020.
China: http://i.space.com/images/i/12419/original/china-space-station-design-art.jpg
The ISS: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/STS-135_final_flyaround_of_ISS_1.jpg
Theirs looks a little bigger. And they will have it completed in only 8 years. The ISS (which is not ours) was completed in 14 years.

Soon China will become the world leader in technology (if their not already!).

If you want to rely on solar electricity exclusively, how many solar panels will you need to buy?

Solar energy is one of the most important components of a renewable energy future. Your parents are considering installing photovoltaic cells, which convert the sun's energy directly into electricity, on their roof, and have asked for your help. You do some research and learn that, on a sunny day in Idaho, sunlight at the earth's surface provides about 0.75 kilowatt/m2. Solar panels have an area of 0.5 square meter, operate at 10% efficiency, and cost $63. Your parents use electricity at a rate of 2 kW.

1. If your parents want to rely on solar electricity exclusively, how many solar panels will they need to buy? How big must their roof be (in feet) to hold the array of panels?
2. If electricity costs $0.08 per kilowatt-hour, how long will it take your parents to recoup their initial investment?

Why Germany has it so good while America is going down?

. The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world, producing nearly a third of the world's economy — nearly as large as the US and China COMBINED. Europe has more Fortune 500 companies than either the US, China or Japan.

European nations spend far less than the United States for universal healthcare rated by the World Health Organization as the best in the world, as US health care is ranked 37th. Europe leads in confronting global climate change with renewable energy technologies, creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs in the process. Europe is twice as energy efficient as the US and their ecological “footprint” (the amount of the earth's capacity that a population consumes) is about half that of the United States for the same standard of living.

Unemployment in the US is widespread and becoming chronic, but when Americans have jobs, we work much longer hours than our peers in Europe. Before the recession, Americans were working 1,804 hours per year versus 1,436 hours for Germans — the equivalent of nine extra 40-hour weeks per year.

People in the countries that are in trouble now economically were the ones willing to go to Iraq — and there is a connection. These are the countries that were much more inclined to go the American route, going into debt heavily, using housing speculation as the engine of the economy, and opening their economies big time to global bank debt and finance.

Goldman Sachs poured tons of money into Greece, and other New York, London and German banks poured money into Spain. None of the bubbles occurred in Germany and in the “old Europe” that Donald Rumsfeld wrote off. Part of Europe is in trouble to the extent — and only to the extent — that it's involved in the American model. Those countries most resistant to the American model are doing fine.

Would you agree that it is the Conservatives and Libertarians that actually care about the environment?

Considering the fact that Conservatives and Libertarians largely support Nuclear energy – a vital importance to solving climate change– unlike liberals who still think renewable energy is the way to go (lol).In the 1980s, we were commissioning 40 new nuclear power plants a decade. If we kept building at approximately that rate, we would have the share of electricity generated by coal and nuclear almost reversed today. Instead of it being 20 percent nuclear and 50 percent coal, it would be 50 percent nuclear and 20 percent coal. Who would argue that from an environmental point of view that wouldn't be a better situation?
I don't care about what that idiot Glenn Beck said.

Is anyone in Houston using Spark Energy? Anyone have problems?

I haven't been able to find any reviews and would appreciate any opinions from people who've either tried to sign up or are with them now, or have had them and switched. They seem to have the best rate, especially for the 100% renewable plans so it seems too good to be true.

thanks!

Recall when barry said that under his plan, electricity rates would “necessarily skyrocket”? Is LA there?

Households that get their power from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power could see their electric bills go up between 8.8% and 28.4%, depending on where they live and how much energy they use, under a plan unveiled Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Appearing with labor and environmental leaders, Villaraigosa said the proposed increases would ensure that the DWP meets his goal of securing 20% of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by Dec. 31. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dwp-rates16-2010mar16,0,7870063.story

Why are so many people concerned with the rate in which the crude oil reserves of the planet are being used?

Only once the non- renewable energy sources are depleted will the science of renewable energy thrive. Drive large vehicles, waste electricity, you will help get us there sooner.
Selfishness and greed are not answers or excuses.

What would your tax policy be if you were president?

This is mine. Please comment on yours.
-First, a flat tax is the dumbest idea ever and the Bush tax cuts were terrible.
-I am in favor of cutting taxes for everyone. However, 35% should be the minimum government should tax millionaires.
-I feel that the corporate tax rate should be lowered. American businesses need to get competitive with other countries tax codes. Therefore, I'd lower it to 25% and companies involved in renewable energy projects should get a tax rate of 0%.
2nd, I'd lower interest rates , dividends, and capital gains tax on middle income families making $100,000 or less.
3rd, I favor the current capital gains tax. I think America needs to encourage investments. Therefore, I wouldn't change that.
Què pensa vostè? It's a mix of republican values and democrat values.

How would I be categorized politically?

I support unborn rights and would support a pro-life amendment to the constitution, with the only acceptation for the mother's life.

I would abolish the department of education because it's a local and state level responsibility.

I support the right to bear arms, concealed weapons licenses, hunting, stand your ground laws, etc.

I support a 2 strikes and your out drunk driving law.

I support a his body his choice law banning infant circumcision unless it is to treat a legitimate medical condition.

I support the decriminalizing of marijuana because it is less harmful than alcohol.

I think the drinking age should be 18 to match the age of adulthood.

I think it is of the highest urgency to become and stay energy independent.

I support nuclear power and increasing the number of nuclear power plants across America.

I would push the auto makers to make electric cars available for drivers who want them.

I would set and push for goals of energy independence, curing cancer, and paying down the nation debt.

I oppose the endangered species act because it has failed to protect one species and has only given government control of people's land.

I would raise the levels of fines on employers hiring illegal aliens.

Homeland security should only be used as an anti-terror agency and criminal law enforcement should be handled by other agencies.

I don't believe there is such thing as a gay marriage and think we should give them the same privileges that comes with marriage but call it something else.

I think capitalism is the greatest antipoverty tool the world has ever seen and encourage the economy, not put outrageous taxes on it.

I don't believe humans are warming up the Earth but I think we need to clean up some of the messes we are making such as air quality.

I believe in a small federal government. I don't think the general public should even notice the federal government unless they visit their local military recruiter or post office.

No more ethanol, it causes higher grocery bills and less MPG.

I support Boone's plan.

I support the rights of nudists to live their lifestyle on their privately owned property without the government telling them they must put clothes on.

I am a Christian but don't think it's the government's job to push morality, I think morality must come from the people up. Not the government down.

I support net neutrality, and oppose bandwidth caps.

I would revert our copyright laws back to that of the Webster and Benjamin Franklin years: An item can be copyrighted for 14 years, renewable once, then falls into public domain.

We allow men to go out in public shirtless. I support amending the law allowing both genders to do the same. One gender shirtless is discrimination. I support women's rights to breast feed in public. That is the function of the breast. I don't think anyone has ever been harmed for seeing a breast.

I think smokers should be required to pay their own way when they get cancer and heart disease. Not get public money to fight a self imposed condition.

I would allow people to own their social security accounts and allow them to invest in a Roth IRA within their social security account so the people may build a nest egg to retire on. Each person will own their account and congress may never dip into it.

I would make it illegal for credit card companies to raise interest rates , at will, with no delinquent activity: banning universal default.

Absolutely, no more national debt. No more borrowing.

I believe terminally ill patients should be allowed to take experimental drugs that have yet to receive FDA approval.

Lets get rid of the IRS, replace tax system with flat tax or national sales tax. The IRS and current tax code only exists to control people.

I oppose taxes on broadband internet access, sales tax on in items bought online, and regulation of online content.

I don't believe our government is up to the task of providing national heath care and it's much better off left in the hands of the private sector.

I think adults should legally be able to take steroids for body building if he is not competing in competitive sports.

I think daylight savings time should be expanded to a year round project.

I oppose the government regulating the content of literature, films, video games, etc.

Comparing & Contrasting: Iceland and Finland?

I have been researching and reading a lot about Finland lately and I have made almost a 100% decision that I want to move there for my Master's degree and to pursue an Engineering career (after I'm finished with a few years in the States for my Bachelor's degree). I already know a lot about Finland from the things I have read, such as:
How technologically advanced it is
How the people are very shy and quiet but also are very friendly and cooperative with one another
How little corruption it has
How effective their education system is
Their excellent fluency in the English language
Their scientific and mathematic literacy
Their fairly low poverty rate
Their use of renewable energy and preservation of their environment
Their civil rights, including freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, democracy…
Their national pride
etc. etc.

However, I have just recently become interested in Iceland and I have to say I am very impressed with it. Of the things I listed above, how does Iceland compare with Finland? I would also like to know how their job openings in the engineering field compare with Finland (since from what I've heard, there aren'ta lot in Finland at the moment). I'd also be curious to know their relationship with the rest of the world (since I know Finland generally keeps to themselves) and the climate there (yes, I know it's cold as hell, but I've heard that the summer months in Finland are usually fairly nice).

Final note: I know the Icelandic language is extremely difficult to learn, and how most people say it's one of the most difficult in the world. That's why I'm interested in their fluency in English because I want to know how long I can get with English alone (I'm usually not bad with picking up languages through immersion).

Why do people say solar panels are too expensive when in CA they lease/install at current electric bill rate?

If your electric bill is $200. you can lease a Solar PV system in CA, and pay $200. for 20 years. No raising of rates !!! No C02 or pollution to offset. The Panels are warranted for 25 years. Yet, so many here buy into the ignorant idea, solar is not viable, it's too far off, why is that? Glen Beck said so? Check rates in your area. 21 states have incentives. If Oil and Defense get corporate welfare solar incentives are fair. The main components are silicon (same as computer chips), metal and glass. It's a no brainer. The ones trying you to convince you it's not realistic are Petroleum companies, ever wonder why?

Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy

Science report help! (year 7)Fossil fuels etc?

Ok i have almost finished my report but there are a few things that i need to include but i don't know the answers.I have tried browsing the internet but i can't find anything.The report is based on Fossil fuels and renewable energy sources…

1. Explain how animal waste can be used as a source of energy .Write a balanced equation for the reaction that produces the energy .(you don't have to write out the equation but a few facts and notes would help for this one please)
2.Which of these are renewable sources of energy ? a) the sun, b) rainfall, c) the wind, d) the tide, e) hot rocks, f) biomass.
3.the importance of fossil fuels and their products in life
4.How long fossil fuels are likely to last at the present rates of consumption.
5.Pollution problems involved in the use or fossil fuels.
6.How recycling plastics etc can help us to save fossil fuel.

Thanks if you just know the answer to one it really would help.

Do you think that someday as many homeowners that own cars will own the Solar PV power plant on their roof?

Seems to me that when cars were first invented and people owned horses, and buggies and carriage houses, they denied that cars were reliable and worth the investment. Here in CA you can buy a solar PV system, it's connected to the power company with a bi-directional meter, it's sized so that you get your power from the power company at night and bad weather, and they buy your excess power when your family is at work and school. NO BATTERIES unless you want back-up power from the grid. Most don't have batteries. Then there is CSP, those giant trough-like concentrated solar power plants in the desert. I square mile of CSP could power the country. Sure we'd have to update the grid. The biggest resistance is coming from the Nuclear and Petroleum industries. They want you to think those are better options. Nuclear is a dead end game, we don't need it and it's too dangerous. There is a 30% Federal tax rebate — NOT A SUBSIDY — no more than any other allowable deduction is a subsidy. The power company in many states like CA, NJ, NY and 21 States will also pay a big portion of your initial cost? Per què? They get to buy the excess power from your roof cheaper and locally. It's win/win. If we manufactured here, and people bought the systems like they do cars, the market would drive the industry. Solar, Wind, Hydo, Tidal these are the future of energy and they are renewable . Oil is half gone refered to as “Paek Oil” they will squeeze every dime of profit before it's gone. Would be better to see to it petroleum lasts longer. Corn ethanol is a loser but switch grass ethanol is a winer, made from weeds. Why is corn ethanol pushed instead? The corn industry. It's corporatism driving what is really best into the ground with misinformation and propaganda to head off the emergence of Renewable Energy which is the best way to go. Solar PV on your roof is distributed solar (not a huge power plant) depending on where you live and your local power rates the payback can be 8 years, warranted for 25 years, that's 17 years of free power. The current energy industry is dead set against US buying into that reality, hence all the misinformation. I know a family who has solar and wind turbines. The turbines work great in winter and the solar work great in summer, they sell excess power to the power company and get power when the solar and wind systems are not at their best. Works great and saves them a bundle. That's in CO.

Should I take a 50% increase on my energy bills for the sake of the planet?

And that's just my bill. No telling what it will do to businesses whose energy bills are more than 10 times mine.

The governor of California is mandating that energy companies provide electricity that is produced by 30% renewable sources such as solar panels and wind turbines.

These companies will raise energy rates so they can collect the money needed to invest in these additional energy sources. By the way, it would cost me $15,000 to solarize my house. Given my current energy bills, it would take more than ten years for my panels to pay themselves.
Roadrunner: You bring up another point. The governor promised 500 thousand “GREEN JOBS”, which were supposed to include solar panel factories.

He promised the jobs, but I guess he didn't promise them in California

How much oil do we have left?

Also, when will it all run out if we continue drilling at the rate we are now and which renewable energy source is most likely to rule supreme once petrol and diesel is no longer an option?

Should politics be one big game or should it be for the benefit of the people? What say you?

In its first 40 hours, the new majority of the House of Representatives kept their promise to voters and passed legislation—increasing the minimum wage for the first time in a decade, empowering Medicare to negotiate lower prices on drugs, cutting interest rates on student loans in half, revoking big oil subsidies and using the money to invest in renewable energy —that provided a down payment for a new direction for this country.

These bills are overwhelmingly popular, and are simply common sense reforms. Yet every one of them—and many more—got held up in the US Senate.

Conservatives boast about the “success” of their strategy in discrediting the new majority. As Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., put it, “the strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail. So far it's working for us.”

How is it working? It's dragging the reputation of the Congress down to the level of the failed president. Conservatives lie in the road of progress and then complain that nothing is moving.

This values partisan posturing over reforms vital to the country. It must be challenged.

It's time to take the gloves off.

The first step is to expose the obstruction to the American people. Let's urge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to force a real filibuster. Keep the bills on the floor and force vote after vote, exposing the obstructionists. We'll organize in states across the country to insure that their constituents know exactly who is standing in the way of progress.
Proud Conservatives need to learn how to read, the freaking point is that the Senate has obstructed the bills , what a freaking tard
All idiots like the Proud Conservative please refer to paragraph 2 before you open your pie hole and make a fool of yourself
Yeah it tells me that a bunch of mindless idiots who can't see past the REAL problem forgot to vote straight ticket to get a REAL majority that could effect change
Indeed, Hendrix also sang
With the power of love anything is possible

Band of Gypsys………..absolutely GREAT RnR
DC John are you really that stupid? The American people VOTED for this agenda so if that's ram rodding something it's the DAMN WILL OF THE PEOPLE , what an idiot

Shouldn't McCain be questioning his own energy policies instead of Obama's?

“In 2007, McCain missed all 11 energy -related Senate votes considered key by the League of Conservation Voters, including votes related to automobile fuel economy, offshore Virginia drilling, refinery construction, renewable electricity mandates, energy efficiency, liquefied coal and support for biofuels. The absences prompted the League to give McCain a “zero” rating for the year.”

And Inflating your tires is a tip recommended by all energy experts, Obama merely endorsed it, he never said anything about making that his energy policy.

Why would John Mc Cain be a good president in terms of energy policy for the US?

In 2007, McCain missed all 11 energy -related Senate votes considered key by the League of Conservation Voters, including votes related to automobile fuel economy, offshore Virginia drilling, refinery construction, renewable electricity mandates, energy efficiency, liquefied coal and support for biofuels. The absences prompted the League to give McCain a “zero” rating for the year.
JonChicago – he has received $200 million from oil companies… he is bought and paid for. how does this make him independent or a maverick?

Why are there so many social problems in the richest country in the world?

To name but a few, the USA scores lowly in all of the following compared to countries like Japan or Scandinavia (and most of western Europe to a lesser extent):

1) Crime
2) Teenage pregnancy
3) Health/life expectancy
4) Poverty and low income
5) Long working hours culture / less paid hoilday
6) Educational achievement/literacy rates
7) Obesity Environmental pollution eg CO2 per capita, recycling
9) Public transport and renewable energy

Is China taking a more sensible approach to coal-fired energy?

I have read that since about 2006, China has been 'retiring' many of its smaller, older, less efficient coal-fired plants. To offset the closure of these plants, they are building new, more efficient coal-plants that don't put out as much in the way of pollutants.

As China is rich in coal resources, don't you think that it is wise for them to make the most out of their cheap, readily available energy resource?

China closing down small coal-fired plants
Yvonne Chan in Hong Kong, BusinessGreen, 31 Jul 2009

“Facilities with a total generating capacity of 54GW have been shut from 2006 to June this year, Sun Qin, deputy director of the National Energy Administration, said yesterday.
The announcement follows the release of a Greenpeace report earlier this week that called for China to phase out outdated facilities with a generating capacity of less than 100MW and set a renewable energy target of 30 per cent by 2020.
Sun said the number of plants with a capacity below 100MW comprised 14 per cent of the total proportion of energy -generating units, down from 30 per cent in early 2006.
However, in the meantime new coal-burning plants are still being built at a rate of 70GW per year, although Sun said most of the new facilities have significantly higher levels of energy efficiency than those they replace.
China is the world's largest coal producer and consumer. The fossil fuel accounts for at least 70 per cent of its energy needs – a factor that has led to its top ranking in global greenhouse gas emissions.”

Can you answer five short poll questions?

1. Should the government tax income earners making more than $250,000 annually at a higher rate or the same rate as income earners making less?

2. Should government provide tax incentives for businesses and individuals who use wind, solar or other renewable energy sources instead of nuclear, oil, coal or other fossil fuels?

3. Should the US government support Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip or should the US government support an independent Palestinian state in those territories?

4. Should the government legalize same sex marriages, civil unions, or neither?

5. Should the government keep abortion legal or criminalize it?

How does my English essay sound?

The topic is “The greatest evil facing our world today”
It is actually a speech to be given in front of a massive crowd

The greatest evil facing the world today is the footprint left on this planet by mankind. The earth is the only one of its kind that we have. Our planet is being worn out by the unnecessary actions that we take each second, minute, hour, day and year. The ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gases that we emit into our once clean atmosphere are going to result in the earth punishing us at anytime she wants. Our survival could be lost in as little as twenty-five years if our behavior towards the environment doesn't change for the better.
The depletion of the ozone layer will be complete within 200 years at the rate it is being depleted now. If this occurs, no life will be able to live on the surface of the earth. There are already some holes in the ozone layer which have caused immense skin cancers and blindness in animals. Frogs all over the world are becoming dreadfully deformed. In addition, over fifty-one acres of rainforest are destroyed by the developed world per minute.
Currently, twenty-five percent of western pharmaceuticals derive from rainforest ingredients although less than one percent of all rainforest materials have been scientifically tested. This shows that the rainforest could have the cure to the vast majority of the diseases that cause troubles in this world. It could have probably been easily ALL the diseases if the extinction rate of all species was not as high as it is now. Currently, over 130 species are lost per day and more than 99.999% of all species that once lived on this earth are now extinct. Nearly half of the world's existing species will be eliminated in the next twenty-five years due to rainforest deforestation.
The amazing thing is that we still consume non- renewable energy much more than we use renewable energy . We consume almost 1.4 million barrels of oil every forty minutes whilst the solar energy that hits the earth's surface in forty minutes is enough energy for the whole world for a whole year. But this does not make us think about the vast amount of energy that has less effect on their world. If we did, the earth would be a much healthier and cleaner place to be in.
Politicians are actually accepting the reality of our situation and are taking actions. They have been given the irritating wake-up call of land loss due to the rising sea levels. Some people are thankful that they are starting to realize our problem. I for one am not. It shouldn't be economic problems that influence their actions, but moral beliefs.

How much does renewable energy cost?

For domestic and industrial sectors , what are the round figures of renewable electricity rates ?
Where can I find such prices on the net?

Thank you all.

Which is the best rated Masters program in renewable energy management?

I have Engineering and MBA degrees and am trying to find a good Masters/ PhD renewable energy management program (not hardcore engineering). I am considering developed countries eg, Scandinavia, Europe, Singapore, Canada, UK, Australia or the US.

Mechanical Engineering at Manchester U or Energy Engineering at Leeds U?

In terms of education quality, student life, crime rates , how welcome are the ppl to international students.. I applied through UCAS and so I get to choose my first and second option. My first option will be either one of both, and second option I think will be Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy at Edinburgh U.

Should the government subsidize renewable energy development to the equal dollar value that it subsidizes?

the fossil fuel industry? When totalled this would equal hundreds of billions of dollars each year when all carbon fuel subsidies such as exploration, defense and environmental damage are factored in. At that rate a totally new energy infrastructure would be paid for in half a decade and bringing a return on investment.
Lizzy, tax payers of course. The same people who are subsidizing the oil industry to destroy the global environment.
Jim, get your head out of your butt, you're wrong.
http://209.200.74.155/doc/Real%20Price%20of%20Gasoline.pdf

What is the possibility of using Al Gore's facial hair as a renewable source of energy….?

….to fuel the planes he is flying all across the country promoting his film? Is it possible that Rogaine, applied to his face, would result in a rapid enough growth rate to reverse his personal contribution to the problem? Or is the energy used to produce the food & clean water to sustain his life in excess of the energy produced by his facial hair such that it is always going to be a net energy loss?

There are some energy sources that can be either renewable or nonrenewable, depending on the manner and rate?

at which we use them.

TRUE
FALSE

Renewable Energy homes ?

The cost of running power lines to my property is $18k, and my rate would be the same as every one else. To me $18k is better spend on solar and wind. So many people think this is impossible to do and are just plain wrong !
Here are two good links to find a better way.

http://www.homepower.com/index.cfm

http://www.motherearthnews.com/

I'm not looking for a government handout rebate, just a lifestyle that makes sense. To me RE is just plain patriotic, America at its finest.

Does anybody use Dynowatt for their electric provider in Texas?

I am looking at switching and I saw that they have cheap per watt rates while still being 100% renewable energy . Is this a good one to use? Is there anything I need to know about them before signing up?

How much do you really know about energy #3?

1) According to the Oil and Gas Journal, at 2006 production rates , how many years will the global known reserves last?
a.20
b.40
c.50
d.60

2) According to 2007 data, what percentage of US energy use is currently supplied by renewable resources?
a.0-10
b.10-20
c.20-30
d.30+

3) According to 2007 projections, what percentage of US energy will be supplied by renewables in 2030?
a.0-10
b.10-20
c.20-30
d.30+

4) What percentage of gasoline used in the US would be replaced by ethanol, using current corn-based production technology, if every acre of corn was used to produce ethanol?
a.0-10
b.11-25
c.26-40
d.41-55

5) What percentage of cars on the road today are designed to operate using E-85?
a.0-5
b.6-10
c.11-15
d.16-20

I must say I am very dissapointed in all of the “experts” here who have failed to answer these simple questions.
Gymnastics, your answer was totally non-responsive so you get a thumbs down.

I need help with my english homework!?

Hi I speak spanish, but I am studying english and I need some help with some sentences.
I have to write 3 sentences using simple past, used to, simple present, present progressive and imperative. But I also have to use at leat 4 phrasal verbs, 2 indefinite articles, 2 definite articles, 1 reflexive pronoun and 1 reciprocal pronoun. Here are the sentences please hel me to correct them.
By the way it is about global warming, thanks I really need your help!
SIMPLE PAST

1.People overused fossil fuels and they did not consider that this natural resource affects the planet.

2.We believed that water was a renewable resource and we did not pay attention to the way we use it .

3.People used natural resources faster that they can be replaced. They did not think in the consequences of not taking care of the nature.

USED TO

4.People used to drive to their works everyday, but now some of them prefer to walk or share cars.

5.People used to leave all the lights on and they also used to throw garbage away to the rivers. Now people even try to talk to one another about this issue and different ways to help.

6.People used to buy any kind of product without thinking, but now there are special products that help to reduce gas emissions.

SIMPLE PRESENT

7.Now people always turn off the lights this is a good and easy way to save electricity and contribute with the planet.

8.In Costa Rica people rarely consume fast food this kind of food contains a lot of carbon dioxide. We usually eat organic food in that way people contribute with the planet.

9.Most of people own cars, but there are some that prefer to ride their bikes or walk this reduces the emissions of gases.
PRESENT PROGRESSIVE

10.In my family shopping is one of the most important things and one way to save energy is using a reusable bag, instead of accepting a disposable bag in each shop.

11.I am really concern about global warming , that is why I gave up to many things like taking long baths, using hot water and driving my car. In this way I am not consuming too much energy .

12.I pushed myself to get into the green movement and now I am buying fresh food instead of frozen, recycling and I am always telling my family and friends no to waste energy .

FUTURE

13.Schools are going to give more information about global warming and different ways to help with the environment.

14.Global warming itself is a terrible problem that is why there will be campaigns all over the world working this issue out and people will be part of this change.

15.Scientist will use renewable energy in industries and this will reduce gas emissions.

IMPERATIVE

16.Find out if any activist group is working on the issue in your country.

17.Plant a tree. Trees help to suck up the carbon dioxide.

18.Teach children the value of our earth. They are the future and you can even learn from each other.
Thank you so much you really saved my life!

If Bush Would Have Spent $2TRILLION On Getting USA Off Of Foreign Oil, Would Terrorists Be Going Broke?

Had Bush spent our grandchildren,s SSi on research and production of renewable energy instead of going to war to protect our oil supply, we would be 7 years into the program by now and well on the way to energy independence.America could have lead the world in green technology creating millions of good paying jobs and eliminating our need for foreign oil. The $ Americans spend on foreign oil/gas provides a large % of the terrorist`s funding.Making this war redundant. Bush could have gone down in history as the president who put America back to work,cleaned up the environment,Halted global warming,Starved Alqidea out of existence, And made America the world leader of green Technology b4 we ended up dependent on China for that too! But………. Instead, He invaded Iraq ,A country that had NOTHING to do with 9-11,Had no WMDs creating 10Xs the terrorists we were facing b-4 9-11.

Which is greener, using paper towels or rags?

Paper towels come from a renewable resource. (Hopefully, you have purchased paper towels made from recycled paper.) Paper becomes compost, so it doesn't stay in landfills for as long as plastic. I have heard that using rags, hand towels, or dish towels is greener. But what about the energy and water it takes to wash them? On the other hand, what about the energy , water, and waste that is produced to make paper? I'm looking for some stats and facts so if you are scientist and answer this question bonus for you!

What majors/colleges should I look into if I want to be an environmental scientist?

Ever since I was little I've had sort of an obsession with the environment and being green , and now that highschool's starting, I want to know which electives I should look into. When I finish school, I want to work with renewable energy and ways to improve and make our lifestyles more “ green .” What kind of electives would prepare me for the type of college courses/major that would be required for a job like that? What major would that be? What kind of colleges are best for students pursuing a career like that?

some science help please?

1. Technology may be the key to a more _______________ future. A. “ green ”
B. environmentally friendly
C. sustainable
D. all of the above

2. New discoveries in ___________ are made because of technologies.
A. the environment
B. the world
C. science
D. the human population

3 What is a positive / beneficial reason to use solar energy ?
A. no pollution
B. no use of nonrenewable fossil fuels
C. renewable energy source
D. available all the time
E. all of the above

4 _____ is using knowledge to make tools to meet our needs and wants.
A. The internet
B. Technology
C. Genetic engineering
D. Industrial manufacturing
E. DNA sequencing

For those saying the stimulus “didn't work”, do you realize that is fundamentally changed America?

It was actually a backdoor way for Obama to advance a green agenda. I know some conservatives must hate that because they hate the environment, but green energy is the fastest growing industry in the world. Here is a sample of that..

Last year, exactly two US factories made advanced batteries for electric vehicles. The stimulus will create 30 new ones, expanding US production capacity from 1% of the global market to 20%, supporting half a million plug-ins and hybrids.

And after the credit crunch froze financing for green energy , stimulus cash has fueled a comeback, putting the US on track to exceed Obama's goal of doubling renewable power by 2012.

That's why the stimulus launched the Advanced Research Projects Agency- Energy (ARPA-E), a blue-sky fund inspired by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the incubator for GPS and the M-16 rifle as well as the Internet. Located in an office building a block from the rest of the Energy Department, ARPA-E will finance energy research too risky for private funders, focusing on speculative technologies that might dramatically cut the cost of, say, carbon capture — or not. “We're taking chances, because that's how you put a man on the moon,” says director Arun Majumdar, a materials scientist from the University of California, Berkeley. “Our idea is it's OK to fail. You think America's pioneers never failed?”

An amazing article on the stimulus, lots of stuff you just don't hear about in the main stream media. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2013826,00.html#ixzz1VjXpLSaA

Which church should I join? Really I need love?

My personailty:
I like computers, mythology, science, art, history, nature, good books, the mountains, clean air, renewable energy
I like to travel, learn new languages(I'm up to 5), meet cool people and have a good time, even a beer once in awhile
My description: I'm 5'10 brn hair, hazel/ green eyes 185 lbs
My education. Some college
Fav Music: Rush,U2,Pink Floyd, Led zeppelin, Folk music
Fav movies: Anything fantasy
My turn ons –Nice body, brunettes, open minded, adventerous, sweet, humble, non-materialistic
My turn offs: Believing jesus is the only way to get in heaven, are you guys serious! The first christians were mystics and knew alot about meditating and the levels of higher consciousness. You know why I am angry I'll tell you
Christianity=Procrastination
Why wait for death to go to heaven when we can pull it through a dimensional portal LOL and bring it here on earth.Having faith means stop trying and learning
It is called having an idea and making that idea reality

Can you help my English?

Could you write down what she said ?( Btw I have the dialog which is dubbed by Australian or English???? what do you think it is Austrailian accent or British accent ?)

Australia's BOOLD ????plan carbon emmisions trading scheme are under threat . critic say it would cost jobs and provoke economic uncertainty .
________________________

and What does VOA stands for ? Voice of America ???/ but the news reader does not have North American accent .

or They used the news script from VOA , ????
___________________
m: I think the mojority of their power plants as coal firing .
w: still ? that's the majority
m:that's why they're such a high EDMMITERS????? of the green house gases.
w: ah,,, Australia stiil use power plants as coal firing
it's time to accept the renewable energy in Australia , too
and as you mention before , Australia is one of the worst per capita EMITTORS?? of the green house gases. .so it can't help it . cause they are using power plants as coal firing (speaking korean)

m: yeah unless YOU KNOW?????? they start THE INVESTING ???newclear power plants,
w. you know , these days newclear plants and renewable plants are topic of conversation a lot ( speaking korean)
m: Australia's one of the few countrys VARYING?????? climate zones and territorys and you know PRANTS????? that they could probably use a lot of renewable sources , energy sources such as sun light because they have A ?????desert . they have specific region for there's a lot of winds and they also have tons of landS?????? ( which is correct TONS OF LANDS or TONS OF Land ) you know that outbackS??????? and wilderness IS ???????? another RESOURCES or RESOURCE ??? that they could use ,
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Don't you think that India has a lot of lessons to learn from recent fearful Japanese experiene?

Earthquake, tsunami and a nuclear emergency, what has happened in Japan is extremely sad. My thoughts are with the people of Japan. The crisis at Fukushima continues to be a race against time, and is clearly not under control.

But Maharashtra committed to set up a nuclear power plant at Jaitapur! The nuclear reactors planned in the country, especially in Jaitapur, Maharashtra needs to be reviewed. It is also an earthquake prone zone, which the authorities are trying to downplay.

When Japan with its advanced technology is struggling with the situation, imagine what could happen in India? (recall the horrid impact of Bhopal toxic gas leak, due to lax safety systems to protect staff and public, that resulted in the biggest industrial tragedy of our times)!

Nuclear energy is a gamble and the risks can be deadly. The Government needs to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency, that is not only environmentally sound but also affordable and reliable.

The government needs to know that people all across the country support those opposing the nuclear plant in Jaitapur.

People in Jaitapur don't want this nuclear plant. Green Peace India is taking a signature campaign in the cause against nuclear installations in general and in the Maharashtra site in particular.

Also be informed:
Nuclear power could cost trillions over renewables Scientific American, June 19, 2009:
The analysis factors in studies from Wall Street and independent energy analysts estimating the efficiency of renewable energy at 6 cents per kilowatt hour versus 12 to 20 cents per kilowatt hour for nuclear. Cooper says those costs will fall on either ratepayers through higher electric bills or on taxpayers through large subsidies.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=nuclear-power-could-cost-trillions-2009-06-19

Don't you think we should leave a safe and secure place for our children and grand children?

Creative ways to generate energy?

Besides the well known renewable energy sources (solar, wind , hydrothermal, etc), what are some creative/unique ideas to generate energy ? Whether large scale (like for a company), or that can be done in a home? For example, riding a stationary bike that generate electricity from the turning of the pedals.

what type of renewable energy source is the…read on…(easy 10 points!)?

what type of renewable energy source is the most expensive overall out of Solar, Wind , Boi- energy , Geothermal and Hydroelectric?
plz plz i need help!

i want to prepare a model related to renewable sources of energy.?

It is should not like solar cooker or wind mill. I just want something different and good of the school level and not more than that.

A little can be taken.

What is the best renewable energy source?

Please, just answer this if you really KNOW For a country that has sun, wind and geothermal areas, and lots of it all, in which order should these resources be used as energy sources , considering cost of production, land use and amount of energy production

Can anyone explain to me the negative aspects behind renewable energys such as wind and solar?

There has been consistent talk about the pros of renewable energy source, but just to get a good understanding of the argument I would like to hear some of the negative aspects associated with this energy .

Does it take more water to deliver electricity from renewable or nonrenewable energy?

I've heard that it takes water to power anything, so does it take more water to deliver electricity from renewable sources (solar, wind ,geothermal,tidal) or from nonrenewable sources (coal,natural gas,oil)?

Please include web sources , this is for a research project.
(Does it take any water to TRANSFER energy from sources )

I did not mean does it take water to collect energy .

are main goverments constructing renewable energy plants?

countries like usa and european ones. are they building wind farms and that. what ones?

and also what is the highest renewable energy source for one country?

Which two renewable energy sources depend on the weather?

solar
tidal
wind
biomass
geothermal

which is not a renewable energy source A.geothermal B.hydroelectric C.natural gas D.wind?